The past three years were the driest in California history since records began in 1895.
At a recent news conference on Google’s campus in Mountain View, Silicon Valley leaders urged residents to continue conserving water as California’s drought drags on.
Although some were dry in California, like the past two years or the winter of 1976-77, some also were very wet, like the winter of 2016-17, when relentless atmospheric river storms filled reservoirs, caused the near-failure of Oroville Dam and led to flooding in downtown San Jose. On Friday, the state’s “water year” ended. Many water managers and meteorologists use Oct. 1 to Sept. 30 as 12-month period to measure rainfall, because California gets most of its rain during the winter, when one calendar year ends and another begins.
“This year was gangbusters better than the last two,” Anderson said. “But it was still overall below average.”
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